24 Manga Like Runway de Waratte

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Barakamon

Manga150 chComedy

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Seishuu Handa is considered a prodigy in the calligraphy world. However, he is extremely narcissistic about his work, and when a senior curator dismisses his award-winning piece as conventional and bland, he loses his cool, leading to potentially career-ending

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Act-age

Manga123 ch

Shared themes: Showbiz.

Ever since she was a child, Kei Yonagi has been attracted to the idea of acting, as she has always attentively watched how actions and emotions differ depending on the type of character portrayed. Now a teenager, she is broke, and is the only one able to finan

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Mahoraba

Manga62 chComedy

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Shiratori Ryushi wants to become a picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-So, in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. Narutaki-so is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn’t fit in urban scenery. It is owned by the cousin of h

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Sketchbook

Manga219 chSlice of Life

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Sora is a quiet girl who finds her niche in the high school art club. When she isn't out capturing images of the neighbourhood in her trusty sketchbook, she can almost certainly be found befriending the local cats.

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Sen wa, Boku wo Egaku

Manga32 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as

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Hanninmae no Koibito

Manga67 ch

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

As a member of the art club, Shintaro Ibuki is stuck with the arduous task of making a piece of school equipment by hand. While crafting, he notices the intimidating Kyoko Sugisaki glaring at him. Unsatisfied with his clumsy efforts, Kyoko eventually steps in

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Kannagi

Manga84 chAction

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

For his art project Mikuriya Jin carved a statue from the recently chopped local sacred tree. As he is about to bring it to school, the goddess of the tree, Nagi, descends upon the statue, having slept until now, not knowing of her demise. Since the sacred tre

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"Gundam" wo Tsukutta Otokotachi.

Manga32 chComedy

Shared themes: Showbiz.

In 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone

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Voice Rush!!

Manga18 ch

Shared themes: Showbiz.

A story that depicts a yankee high school student and his aim to be a top voice actor.

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7.1

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Kami Eshi no Ude ga Tabetai

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Dave, a struggling artist, gets his hands on the severed arm of his best friend Lewis, known as a artistic prodigy. When Dave recalls a rumor that eating parts of an artist's body transfers their talent... The story of friendship and jealousy leads to an unexp

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Ieiya

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Suizan Shirafuji is a painter known for his unconventional memorial portraits. One day, a man comes to him requesting a memorial portrait depicting his father "suffering." What could drive a man to ask that his own father be remembered with an expression of an

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Kunigei: Ookuni Daigaku Geijutsu Gakubu Eiga Gakka

Manga28 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Daisuke Kagami has sported a passion for movies ever since he can remember. Driven by this ambition and a film festival award he won in high school, Daisuke feels spurred to enroll in a film program as an aspiring director. Surprisingly, he gets shut down imme

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Bijutsu Souko no Rapunzel

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

On the 4th floor of the school building, there's an art storage room. They say it's haunted by the ghost of a female student with endlessly flowing golden hair.The truth behind the students' whispered rumors is Amane, Shusuke's childhood friend. Ever since los

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Basashi ga Tabetai

Manga6 chComedy

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Kaede, a high school student, has won first place in an art contest with a painting of her favorite food, basashi. The painting was hung up at her school, making her instantly become the talk of the town. Even the scary-looking boy, Satomi, has taken notice of

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Toumei to Zanzou

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Shoko, an aspiring artist, made her living drawing portraits. One day, a young man wrapped in bandages asked her to draw his self-portrait, but as it turned out, he was actually an invisible man... (Source: MANGA Plus)

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Asagaya Geijutsu Koukou Eizou-ka e Youkoso

Manga1 ch

Shared themes: Showbiz.

Yuki Hiiragi has often been confined to her bedroom watching movies since she was a child. When she enters the film section of Asagaya Artistic High School, she has no ambition and low self-esteem; movies are simply the only thing she knows. But her encounter

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Youkou wo Matsu

Manga16 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Summer of 1940 in Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. Yoko Matsubara is a young girl with a talent for pottery. She dreams of becoming a ceramic artist, unaware of the horrors yet to come… In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of World War II, Shonen Jump+ present

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Dokudoku

Manga1 chRomance

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Freshman-year literature university student Yoshida moves into his new apartment next to an arts student from the same school. In his desire to start his life anew, what might a chance encounter with them bring? (Source: MangaDex)

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Iki suru Koto sura Yurusanai

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Showbiz.

Machida falls in love with the often-laughing Kitayama-senpai. Machida confesses her feelings, but Kitayama quickly turns her down, telling Machida that she has a boyfriend who aims to be a comedian. Out of spite towards her senpai, Machida herself becomes an

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Impasto

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Despite her artistic talent, Sakai is a young girl traumatized by social interactions. When Ikeda, the class's natural mood-maker, suddenly starts talking to her, everything begins to change... A sensitive 59-page coming-of-age drama exploring teenage inner co

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Choukoku Otome

Manga1 chDrama

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

While working on her summer project, Yui from the Sculpture Department hatched an outrageous plan to dethrone Yukishiro, the department's top student...?! (Source: MANGA Plus)

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Danshikou no Gagou to Muse

Manga1 chBoys Love

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

Shiomi harbors a secret while attending his all-boys school, which is creating self-portraits in drag within the privacy of his art studio. But his most protected moments are witnessed by the absolute worst person possible, Aihara. With his secret now exposed,

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Gaki Muchuu

Manga1 ch

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

A man visits a painter renowned for his skill but also known as an eccentric, having been ordered by his lord to commission a fusuma painting. The painter insists he won't paint the next work until he can properly depict a cat. As the man grows increasingly an

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Bishounen Tanteidan

Manga24 chMystery

Shared themes: Visual Arts.

A mysterious group known as the Pretty Boy Detective Club is rumored to solve (and perhaps cause) most of the trouble at Yubiwa Academy—in a strictly unofficial, undercover, uncommercial capacity, of course. In order to find a star she glimpsed ten years ago,